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Five months old startup Flextock bags $3.25 million in pre-seed round
One of the recent graduates of the recent Y Combinator winter batch, flextock, has closed an impressive $3.25 million pre-seed investment. Flextock was ...
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KoinWa launches P2P app as remedy for Nigerians to trade bitcoins
The report titled “The state of crypto in Africa” recognizes the Continent as one of the top players in cryptocurrency around the globe. ...
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Saudi’s Sary raises $30.5 million Series B for its B2B ecommerce marketplace, hits $500 million in annualized GMV
Saudi B2B ecommerce marketplace Sary has raised $30.5 million in a Series B round led by VentureSouq, it announced today. The round was ...
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Gozem launches ride-hailing service in Gabon in first expansion into Central Africa
Gozem has launched an app that offers logistics, transportation, e-commerce, and other financial services across mostly francophone African countries. Gozem was founded in ...
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alt.bank, Brazil’s latest fintech targeting the unbanked, raises $5.5M
Earlier this year there was a focus on Nubank’s $400 million Series G, last month there was the PicPay IPO filing and today, ...
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Indonesian P2P lender Amartha bags $28m from Women’s World Banking fund
Peer-to-peer lending startup Amartha has said that it received a US$28 million investment from the Women’s World Banking Capital Partners II fund and ...
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Kenyan start-ups secure record funding in Africa
The entrepreneurial spirit has been growing across Kenya’s agri-tech, e-commerce, fintech and logistics sub-sectors. The growth has attracted large funding rounds from international ...
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Absa Bank Ghana Engages Startups On Customer Service Strategies
Absa Bank Ghana has engaged about 70 Ghanaian-owned startup businesses on how to grow their business by providing solution-oriented services to customers. Participating ...
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Solar roof-tile and energy startup SunRoof closes €4.5M led by Inovo Venture Partners
SunRoof is a European startup that has come up with a clever idea. It has its own roof-tile technology that generates solar power. ...
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Google partners with Andela and Pluralsight to support 40,000 African developers
Google has partnered with Andela and Pluralsight to launch developer scholarships. The company offers Android, Google cloud, and web scholarships to cover intermediate ...